Entertainment

by / on April 4, 2013 at 1:10 pm / in Entertainment, National, News

Fallon will take Leno’s place on Tonight

A familiar face will be leaving late night television in Spring.. Jay Leno announced yesterday that he will be leaving the Tonight Show. NBC said Leno will be replaced by Jimmy Fallon, whose current gig runs one hour after Leno’s. The show will also move production to New York, and Lorne Michael of Saturday Night Live will take over as [...]

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by / on March 8, 2013 at 3:40 pm / in Entertainment, News, State/Region

Vaudeville on the rise

As I walked in to the home of Christopher Gummeson the lead vocals and keyboard player and Christopher Schara who is the lead guitarist of the band vaudeville you may say that it looked like these guys a long with friends party like rock stars.

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by / on February 18, 2013 at 9:06 pm / in Entertainment

Test your Presidential IQ

ST CLOUD, Minn. (UTVS News) – Today marks the 133rd President’s day. Click the links above to test your presidential IQ!

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by / on February 18, 2013 at 3:04 pm / in Entertainment

Burger King twitter account has been hacked

(AP) – Burger King said Monday that it reached out to Twitter to suspend its account after an apparent hack. Starting just after noon Eastern time on Monday, the fast-food company’s Twitter picture was changed to a McDonald’s logo, the background picture changed to McDonald’s new Fish McBites product and the account tweeted that it had been sold to rival [...]

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by / on December 10, 2012 at 10:51 am / in Entertainment, State/Region

Country music star Chesney sells out Target Field

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — It didn’t take long for country star Kenny Chesney to sell out his concert at the Minnesota Twins’ Target Field. Tickets for Chesney’s “No Shoes Nation” concert sold out around 10:30 a.m. Friday, only a half-hour after going on sale to the general public. Chesney is scheduled to perform at the downtown Minneapolis ballpark on July 12, [...]

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by / on December 5, 2012 at 3:04 pm / in Entertainment, Local, News, St Cloud State

Alumnus Kristian Berg returns to SCSU

Television producer and documentarian Kristian Berg ’82 will screen and discuss his film “Dakota Exile” 7 p.m. Dec. 6 in the Miller Center auditorium. Berg, who holds a St. Cloud State bachelor’s degree in mass communications, is a senior producer/director for Penn State Public Broadcasting at Penn State University in University Park, Penn. Appearing with Berg will be Dakota elder and [...]

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by / on December 5, 2012 at 2:35 pm / in Entertainment, National

Manager jazz composer, Dave Brubeck dies

Jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck, whose pioneering style in pieces such as “Take Five” caught listeners’ ears with exotic, challenging rhythms, has died. He was 91. Brubeck died Wednesday morning at Norwalk Hospital of heart failure after being stricken while on his way to a cardiology appointment with his son Darius, said his manager Russell Gloyd. Brubeck would have [...]

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by / on November 26, 2012 at 6:40 pm / in Entertainment, News, State/Region

“A Prairie Home Companion” to come back home to Minn.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Humorist Garrison Keillor is bringing “A Prairie Home Companion” back home to St. Paul in February. Keillor’s popular public radio variety show will broadcast five shows from the Fitzgerald Theater in downtown St. Paul this winter. The Saturday shows are Feb. 2, 9, 16 and 23 and March 2. They are the only remaining St. [...]

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by / on November 14, 2012 at 5:42 pm / in Entertainment, National

Bon Jovi Daughter-Overdose,

    Bon Jovi daughter recovering after heroin OD in NY CLINTON, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say Jon Bon Jovi’s 19-year-old daughter is hospitalized after overdosing on heroin in a dorm at her upstate New York college. Town of Kirkland police say an ambulance was sent to Hamilton College early Wednesday morning after a report that a female had apparently [...]

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by / on November 13, 2012 at 2:53 pm / in Entertainment, National, News

Elmo puppeteer accused of relationship with a minor

NEW YORK (AP) — The puppeteer who performs as Elmo on “Sesame Street” is taking a leave of absence from the iconic kids’ show in the wake of allegations that he had a relationship with a 16-year-old boy. Puppeteer Kevin Clash has denied the charges, which, according to Sesame Workshop, were first made in June by the accuser, who by [...]

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